Abandonment Therapy Worksheet
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HappierTherapy
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The Happier Therapy editorial team is made up of Masters and PhD counselling psychologists. Each worksheet is created by a team member with exposure to and experience in the subject matter. The worksheet then gets reviewed by a more senior editorial member. This is someone with extensive knowledge of the subject matter and highly cited published material.
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What is the theory behind this Abandonment Therapy Worksheet?
People seeking therapy for abandonment issues have a strong fear and anxiety of losing their loved ones or facing rejection in interpersonal relations. This fear may be based on traumatic childhood relationships or an anxious attachment style. They may have lost important and close relations to divorce, death or physical and emotional abandonment and neglect.
How will the worksheet help?
The worksheet will help provide a checklist of signs that indicate abandonment issues. Individuals can use it as a self analysis to determine whether they have abandonment issues or fear of abandonment that needs professional attention.
How to use the worksheet?
Take some time out to truly reflect on your current and past relationships. Go through the entire checklist and mark the statements that are true for you. If more statements are true for you than not it may indicate that you have abandonment issues that need to be addressed.
